“Physical sex is a larger factor in the life of the woman....  If this be true of the physical element, it is equally true of the mental element.” (Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, The Human Element in Sex, fifth edition, 1894, p. 47.)

“In the female sex,” remarks Clouston, “reproduction is a more dominant function of the organism than in the male, and has far larger, if not more intense, relationships to feeling, judgment, and volition.” (Clouston, Neuroses of Development, 1891.)

“It may be said,” Marro states, “that in woman the visceral system reacts, if not with greater intensity, certainly in a more general manner, to all the impressions, having a sexual basis, which dominate the life of woman, if not as sexual emotions properly so called, as related emotions closely dependent on the reproductive instinct.” (A.  Marro, La Puberta, 1898, p. 233.)

    Forel also believed (Die Sexuelle Frage, p. 274) that women are
    more erotic than men.

The gynecologist Kisch states his belief that “The sexual impulse is so powerful in women that at certain periods of life its primitive force dominates her whole nature, and there can be no room left for reason to argue concerning reproduction; on the contrary, union is desired even in the presence of the fear of reproduction or when there can be no question of it.”  He regards absence of sexual feeling in women as pathological. (Kisch, Sterilitaet des Weibes, second edition, pp. 205-206.) In his later work (The Sexual Life of Woman) Kisch again asserts that sexual impulse always exists in mature women (in the absence of organic sexual defect and cerebral disease), though it varies in strength and may be repressed.  In adolescent girls, however, it is weaker than in youths of the same age.  After she has had sexual experiences, Kisch maintains, a woman’s sexual emotions are just as powerful as a man’s, though she has more motives than a man for controlling them.

Eulenburg is of the same opinion as Kisch, and sharply criticises the loose assertion of some authorities who have expressed themselves in an opposite sense. (A.  Eulenburg, Sexuale Neuropathie, pp. 88-90; the same author has dealt with the point in the Zukunft, December 2, 1893.)

    Kossmann states that the opinion as to the widespread existence
    of frigidity among women is a fable. (Kossmann, Allgemeine
    Gynaecologie, 1903, p. 362.)